The setting is an army base in Hawaii in 1941. Montgomery Clift, in a superb performance, plays a bugler who refuses to fight for the company boxing team; he has reasons for giving up the sport. His refusal results in harsh treatment from the company commander, whose bored wife (Deborah Kerr) is having an affair with the tough-but-fair sergeant (Burt Lancaster). You remember--the scene with the two of them embracing on the beach, as the surf crashes in. The supporting players are as good as the leads: Frank Sinatra and Donna Reed won Oscars (and Sinatra revitalized his entire career), and Ernest Borgnine entered the gallery of all-time movie villains, as the stockade sergeant who makes Sinatra miserable. Zinnemann's work is efficient but also evocative, capturing the time and place beautifully, the tropical breezes as well as the lazy prewar indulgence. This one is deservedly a classic. --Robert Horton
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Burt Lancaster | Sgt. Milton Warden |
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Montgomery Clift | Robert E. Lee Prewitt |
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Deborah Kerr | Karen Holmes |
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Donna Reed | Alma - aka Lorene |
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Frank Sinatra | Angelo Maggio |
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Philip Ober | Capt. Dana Holmes |
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Mickey Shaughnessy | Sgt. Leva |
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Harry Bellaver | Mazzioli |
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Ernest Borgnine | Sgt. 'Fatso' Judson |
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Jack Warden | Cpl. Buckley |
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John Dennis | Sgt. Ike Galovitch |
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Merle Travis | Sal Anderson |
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Tim Ryan | Sgt. Pete Karelsen |
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Arthur Keegan | Treadwell |
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Barbara Morrison | Mrs. Kipfer |
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Claude Akins | Sgt. 'Baldy' Dhom |
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Vicki Bakken | Suzanne |
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Margaret Barstow | Roxanne |
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Henry Beau | Minor Role |
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Willis Bouchey | Army Lieutenant Colonel |
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John Bryant | Capt. G.R. Ross |
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Mary Carver | Nancy |
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John Cason | Cpl. Paluso |
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Mack Chandler | Soldier |
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John Davis | Soldier |
| Director | Fred Zinnemann |
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| Writer | Daniel Taradash, James Jones | |
| Producer | Buddy Adler, Lewis J. Rachmil | |
| Musician | George Duning | |
| Photography | Burnett Guffey, Floyd Crosby | |
| Edition | Blu-Ray Edition |
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| Packaging | HD Case |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] Dolby Digital 5.1 [French] Dolby Digital 5.1 [German] Dolby Digital 5.1 [Spanish] Dolby Digital 5.1 [Italian] Dolby Digital 5.1 [Japanese] Dolby Digital 5.1 [Portuguese] DTS [English] |
| Subtitles | Dutch | English | Finnish | French | German | Italian | Japanese | Portuguese | Spanish | Swedish |
| Distributor | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
| Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | Oct 01, 2013 |
| Regions | Region 1 |
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| Index | 5112 |
| Added Date | Jan 03, 2014 05:55:11 |
| Modified Date | May 17, 2019 03:41:42 |